On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 13:39:23 +0100 Mel Gorman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Page reclaim at priority 0 will scan the entire LRU as priority 0 is > considered to be a near OOM condition. Direct reclaim can reach this > priority while still making reclaim progress. This patch avoids > reclaiming at priority 0 unless no reclaim progress was made and > the page allocator would consider firing the OOM killer. The > user-visible impact is that direct reclaim will not easily reach > priority 0 and start swapping prematurely. That's a bandaid. Priority 0 should be a pretty darn rare condition. How often is it occurring, and do you know why? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
